...States they may exercise the ordinary admiralty jurisdiction (Act of 1845, c. 20). The circuit courts have original cognizance concurrent with the courts...the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value...

...unconstittitionality of the act, the circuit court had jurisdiction, the circuit court of the United States having "original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of...the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity * * * arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States." (25...

...fhe eleventh section of the act to establish the judicial courts of the United States, it is provided that the circuit courts shall have original cognizance,...the several States of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, when the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or Value...

...providing that the circuit courts of the United States shall have original concurrent jurisdictian with the courts of the several States of all suits of a civil nature, where the matter in dispute arises under the Constitution or laws of the United States, of which the...

...provides "that the circuit courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with tho courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature, at' common law and in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs,...

...which relied on the 11th section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, providing that the circuit courts should have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts...the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity. Take it that Congress did not distinguish between the cognizance of the...

...formerly existed was amended August 13, 1888, so as to read that "The circuit courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the...the several states, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the...

...* * * between Citizens of different States." US Constittuion, Art. Ill, § 2(1). Act of 1789 "* * * [T]he circuit courts shall have original cognizance,...the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value...

...the Judiciary Act of 17SO. That statute, based in turn squarely on the Constitution, provided thnt, "The Circuit Courts shall have original cognizance,...the several states, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity where tlte suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought...

...below Original Senate Amendment. 6. See below Printed Senate Bill. Enrolled Act [11.] And be it further enacted, That the circuit Courts shall have original...the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value...